Lecture Cloak

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[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

@WesternLensman Beschloss seems to be making the case that Americans shouldn't be given the chance to vote for their favored candidate if that candidate is Trump.

That is condescending, undemocratic, and absurd.

And this coming from an elite that fetishizes "democracy" as a talking point.

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

@kwelkernbc @SenBillCassidy Nearly every question you asked of Senator Cassidy was of the "yes-no" variety. They were clearly intended to determine whether or not he is guilty of wrongthink.

Why are you asking questions that, as even Cassidy noted in one of them, are begging the answer?

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

@realannapaulina All we can do is ask them to do better -- which they won't. The media will always choose the most bad-faith intepretation of anything Trump or really any Republican says because they are partisans who are utterly convinced their politics cannot be argued against.

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

@MeetThePress @SenBillCassidy @kwelkernbc Nearly every question Welker asked of Cassidy was of the "yes-no" variety and related to Trump. They were intended to reveal whether he is guilty of "wrongthink."

It's a garbage way to practice what, ostensibly, should be journalism that helps bring context to issues.

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

@simonateba @ElieNYC @MSNBC It's one thing to be in favor of affirmative action and restricting guns rights; quite another to think that opposing those policies is beyond the pale in political conversation.

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

@AP And then you end your article with nonsense: That Gay's resignation -- over plagiarism -- will lead to LESS protection for faculty research. What???

Do this test: If Gay were conservative and liberal activists took her down, would you write this article?

You know the answer.

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

@AP Dear AP: Conservatives didn't discredit Gay. She did that to herself.

What in the world are you doing writing apologia's for news subjects?

Why are you treating liberal pieties as normative and conservative activism as self-invalidating?

This is embarrassing.

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

"If any of these journalists had demonstrated an iota of curiosity or skepticism—if they’d practiced journalism as it was meant to be practiced—they could have had a major scoop. Instead they acted as stenographers, with terrible results." https://t.co/rBRT7v4tE1

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

@JoeBiden You're fearmongering. Who is giving you the bad advice to share these stupid, divisive tweets?

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

Note that the worst schools for free speech are among the most prestigious.

https://t.co/Eaj9IwKUmH

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

"But the arrogant and immature idea that history is a monochromatic story of good and evil, of oppressors and oppressed, is becoming the dominant narrative of social respectability in elite institutions, the media, education, and everyday life."
https://t.co/T4BLDajJB0

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

When appealing to the Twitterati mindhive is deemed more important that good art. Freddie nails it:
"If you aren’t actively singing the praises of worthless shlock that’s vaguely associated with progressive politics, you’re one of them." https://t.co/IdNzC5ZGCk

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

Journalists shouldn't require those they interview to reflect their own perfect politics back to them. If you lack empathy and intellectual curiosity, journalism shouldn't be your calling.

Of course, journalism is dominated by those that insist only their worldviews are valid.

[Dana Resnick Gentry @DanaGentryLV]

My post about @JoeLombardoNV declining to denounce Trump’s normalization of attacks on reporters has prompted hundreds of verbal attacks and physical threats. #irony

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

@SenWarren Politics you don't like aren't, by definition, "radical." You can't talk about the right of control over one's body and leave out the living body inside of it as if it's not a rational part of the conversation.

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

@ABC What is he talking about? He represents a party that name-calls anyone who disagrees with them. That favors censoring information it doesn't like. This is surreal.

[izards @ThisFromAndrew]

@mtaibbi https://t.co/aVxb2s7F3Q

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

"Forgiving all this debt will cost the government hundreds of billions of dollars, approximately offsetting all the deficit reduction from the Inflation Reduction Act" https://t.co/prgNosrlB5

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

Amidst the moralizing of "you're a bad person if you don't support student debt forgiveness" are the details: Borrowers who make twice the median income can wipe out $10K in debt. https://t.co/fuuXMT4D3M

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

Illuminating thread that begins with meditations on "decolonializing knowledge" and goes on to conclude that "all that stress and pressure around how much to read is just capitalism...we can read emotions, we can read energy..."

[Lecture Cloak @LectureCloak]

@DavidAFrench There is no level of sacrifice that would move them to empathy. For them, the issue has meaning because it allows them to say "I support the loan forgiveness, which makes me more moral than you."